Corset.



Patented Feb. 6, I900. J. HALSTEAD.

CORSET.

(Application filed Mar. 29, 1899.)

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Patented Feb. 6, I900.

CORSET.

(Application filed Mar. 29, 1899.)

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JOSEPH IIALSTEAD, OF BURNLEY, ENGLAND.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,904, dated February 6, 1900.

Application filed March 2 9, 1 8 9 9.

T0 ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH HALSTEAD, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, and a'resident of 13 Ormerod road, Burnley, in the county of Lancaster, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corsets or Stays, of which the following description, together with the appended sheets of drawings, is a specification.

My invention relates to the construction of corsets or stays whereby they may be readily altered to suit several sizes of wearers with an equal degree of exactness and to be durable and efficient when in use in any of their positions.

To attain the object of my present invention, I construct the corsets so that one part may be folded over another or so that they may be opened out to their fullest extremities and when in any of such relative positions afford the same facilities for their being laced together as are afforded by corsets as usually constructed; and in carrying my invention into effect I follow the method of construction hereinafter described and as illustrated by the accompanying sheets of drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation showing the corset with the parts folded and laced together to form the least size. Figs. 2 and 3 are similar views to Fig. 1, but show the corsets with the parts arranged and laced together to form, respectively, one and two sizes larger corsets than those shown by Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a transverse view, on an enlarged scale, of the folding parts of the corset as in their position shown by Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a similar view to Fig. 1, but illustrates the parts as when in the position shown by Fig. 3. Figs. 6 and 7 are similar views to Figs. 2 and 3, respectively, but illustrate a modification hereinafter explained. Figs. 8 and 9 are similar sectional views of Figs. 6 and 7 that Figs. 4 and 5 are of Figs. 1 and 3.

Similar lettersindicate similar parts throughout the several views.

In carrying my invention into effect I form two series of eyelet-holes a b and c b in each of the edges 0 and d of the corsets, to be joined together by a cord or lace f, series 11 and b being nearer the outer edges than are the series a and a; butin each case the series a or ct is Serial No. 710,912. (No model.)

in such relative proximity with its respective seriesbor b that when the part g or g is folded over (see Fig. i) the one series will in each case exactly overlie the other in order that the lace f may pass through all the several eyelet-holes, as shown by Fig. 1, while the folded edges at It will form the outer edges of the corsets and the least size is produced.

By turning out or opening the part g or g (the part g being shown by Fig. 2) so that made to go with the ordinary kind of corset as at present constructed, with its two usual series of lace-holes m m. In this case the several series of eyelet-holes a b and a b are made in their respective positions in the piece It, as shown, so that when one part of the said piece is folded over the other (see Figs. 6 and 8) they (said respective series of holes a b and a b) will coincide with each other.

In order that the several parts may be folded as above described, I reduce the thickness of theifabric forming the corset at the part, as at p, where the fold is produced, and to,make the corset durable and efficient I secure the usual strengthening-strips s of metal, whalebone, or the like in such positions relatively with the series of holes that one of such strips .9 intervenes at all times between the series of holes and each outer edge of'the parts brought together by the lacing.

Although I have only shown my invention as applied to a corset or stay laced at the back, I wish it to be understood that I am well aware that it can be applied with equal advantage to corsets or stays having their lacing-eyelets arranged in any other position, such as at the front, sides, or other parts thereof.

Such being the nature and object of my invention, what I claim is- 1. A corset comprising two independent sections having foldable lacing edges each fold having lacing-eyelets arranged in series,

said series being adapted to cooperate interand a lace adapted to be passed through said 16 changeably with each other, whereby thesize series of eyelets interchangeably, the said of the corset may be uniformly adjusted from meeting edges being connected by said lace.

top to bottom by the foldable edges, and va- In testimony whereof I have affixed my sig riably adjusted by the lacing. nature in presence of two witnesses.

2. In an article, of wearing-apparel, the JOSEPH HALSTEAD. combination of two independent and separate Witnesses: meeting edges each having a foldable part SAMUEL HEY, each part having eyelets arranged in series, DAN DUTTON. 

